Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics

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Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Masako K. Hiraga Chris Sinha Sherman Wilcox(Herausgeber*in)

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CULTURAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL ISSUES IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. Cultural Patterns, language and cognition
Foxy chicks and Playboy bunnies
A case study in metaphorical lexicalization1
1. Introduction
1.1. Decomposition of the metaphor
2. Componential features analysis
2.1. Central vs. peripheral terms
3. Synchronic distinctive features analysis
3.1. Phonetic features
3.2. Semantic features
3.3. Phonosemantics
3.4. Lexicon
4. Conclusion: Why pets/game animals?
Appendix: Terms
Notes
References
The Domain of Ancestral Spirits in Bantu Noun Classification
1. Bantu and Proto-Bantu Noun Classifiers
2. Theories of Noun Class Assignments
2.1. Arbitrary Classification and Language Degeneration
2.2. Cognitive Theories
2.2.1. Number and Spatial Configuration
2.2.2. Prototypes and Continua
2.2.3. Spatial Schemas with Metaphor and Metonymy
2.2.4. Semantic Networks
2.3. Cognitive-Cultural Approaches
2.3.1. Notional Clusters
2.3.2. Spiritual Ranking and Mythology
2.3.3. Domains of Experience and Category Chaining
3. Shona Noun Classes and Possession by Ancestors
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
DEFERENCE as DISTANCE: Metaphorical Base of Honorific Verb Construction in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Vertical distance
2.1. Verticality of status assessment
2.2 Verbs of vertical orientation and motion
2.3 Vertical motion to donation -formation of honorific suppletives
2.4 Grammaticalization of verbs of vertical orientation and motion
2.5 Summary
3. Horizontal distance
3.1 Distance and the immediacy of event
3.2 Verbs of horizontal movement
3.3 Detransitive verb constructions
3.4 Summary
4. Temporal distance
5. Conclusion
5.1 Summary
5.2 Further problems
DEFERENCE AS DISTANCE 65 Notes
References
Spatial Conceptualization of Time in Chinese
1. Introduction1
2. Evidence in the lexicon
3. Evidence in the inference patterns
4. Conclusions and implications
Notes
References
PART II. Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic approaches
An "Intersubjective" Method for cognitive-semantic Research on Polysemy: The case of GET
1. Introduction
1.1. Polysemy and flexible meaning
1.2. Empirical studies of polysemy
2. Testing subjective intuitions to gather intersubjective evidence
3. The get production test
3.1. Research questions
3.2. The questionnaire
3.3. Subjects and setting
3.4. Example responses
4. Methods of analysis
4.1. How to justify that meanings are different/are same
4.2. Centrality
5. Characteristics of the meaning network of get, based on interintersubjective evidence
5.1. A hierarchical system of meaning types
5.2. Major groups
5.3. Minor groups
5.4. Centrality
5.5. Discussion of some problems
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Prepositional Semantics and the Fragile Link Between Space and Time
1. Introduction
2. The TIME IS SPACE metaphor
3. Grammaticalization's link to (prepositional) polysemy
3.1. Polysemy and lexical network models
3.2. Construal mechanisms
4. The metaphor and the Transparency Hypothesis
5. Testing the Transparency Hypothesis psycholinguistically
5.1. A sorting task
5.2. A similarity judgment task
5.3. A translation decision task
5.4. What the psycholinguistic evidence does and does not suggest
6. Implications for cognitive linguistics and lexical semantics
Notes
References
Computability as a Limiting Cognitive Constraint: Complexity Concerns in Metaphor Comprehension about which Cognitive Linguists should be Aware
1. Introduction
1.1. Structure of This Paper
2. Motivations & Guiding Metaphors
2.1. Conceptual Bridges as Conduits for Metaphoric Activity
2.2. Three Cognitive-Mapping Theories of Analogy & Metaphor
2.3. Issues of Complexity Analysis
3. Sapper: A Hybrid Model of Metaphor Interpretation
3.1. Memory Organization
3.2. Metaphor Interactivity
4. Epistemological Issues in Metaphor Comprehension
4.1. Object-Centred Representations
4.2. Scenario-Centred or Predicate-Centred Representations
4.3. Support Relations
4.4. Epistemological Commitments
5. Quantitative Evaluation and Analysis
5.1. A Quantification of Automatic Inference
5.2. An Experiment
5.3. Factorial Death
5.4. A. C.M.E: Return to Sender?
5.5. Counter-Arguments from the SME Camp
6. Summary and Conclusions
Notes
References
Metaphor vs. conflation in the acquisition of polysemy: the case of see
1. Introduction
2. Background: The theory of conceptual metaphor
3. The analogy between acquisition and historical meaning change
3.1 Historical meaning change based on metaphor
3.2 Meaning change based on correlation
3.3 Correlation in the child's experiences with language
4. The case of see
4.1 See in adult language
4.2 See in acquisition
4.2.1 Observations about the table
4.2.2 Adult uses of see from the corpus
4.2.3 Child uses of see from the corpus
4.2.4 Comments on the data
5. Conclusion
Appendix: Descriptions of use-types of see in the Shem corpus
Notes
References
Acquisition of the Finnish conditional verb forms in formulaic utterances
1. Introduction
2. The data: the conditional verb forms in Finnish
3. General findings
4. Mitä PRON olis? - clear formula, unclear function
5. When formulas juxtapose
6. Affix moves within the formula
7. "Disapproval structures" - formula includes affect
8. Request, pretense, and conditional sentences
8.1. What does "conditional" mean?
8.2. FCON formulas with and without 'if
9. Conclusions
Notes
Abbreviations and marks
References
Cognitive Compositionality: An Activation and Evaluation Hypothesis
1. Introduction
2. The Interactive Theory
3. Contextual Influences
4. Activation Processes
5. The Activation and Evaluation Hypothesis
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Perceptual Simulation in Conceptual Tasks
1. Theoretical framework
1.1. Amodal symbol systems
1.2. Perceptual symbol systems
2. Empirical Research
2.1. Instructional equivalence and perceptual work
2.2. Feature listing
2.2.1. Method and predictions
2.2.2. Coding analysis
2.2.3. Results
2.2.4. Further experiments
2.3. Property verification
2.3.1. Method
2.3.2. Scaling and regression
2.3.3. Results and discussion
2.3.4. Further experiments
2.4. Part similarity
2.4.1. Method
2.4.2. Results and discussion
2.4.3. Further experiments
3. Conclusions
Acknowledgment
Note
References
Dynamic conceptualization and the substitution of nouns and verbs in aphasia
1. Grammatical class and the lexicon
2. The aphasia data
2.1. Schematicity and semantic categories
2.2. Subcomponents of meaning
2.3. Metonymy and metaphor
3. Discussion
Notes
References
Neuroscientific Evidence Against Wierzbicka's Analysis of the Meanings of Basic Color Terms
1. Introduction
2. Kay and McDaniel (1978)
3. Wierzbicka (1990)
4. Response to Wierzbicka's Arguments
4.1. Problems with Wierzbicka 's Japanese and Thai Data
4.2. Inadequacy of Wierzbicka 's New Approach
4.3. Updating Kay and McDaniel 's Analysis
5. Conclusion
References
PART III. Typological issues
Specification in Grammar
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical expression of "overspecified" notions: the proximative
3. Specification - a mechanism of semantic change in grammaticalization
3.1. The present understanding of specification
3.2. Specification in grammaticalization literature
3.3. Specification and grammaticalization
3.3.1. "Loss-and-gain" of specificities
3.3.2. "Gaining" specificities
3.4. Specification and its implications for models of grammaticalization
4. Overt versus covert specification
4.1. Overt specification
4.2. Overt plus covert specification
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
The typology of 1st person marking and its cognitive background
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical splits between 1st and 2nd/ 3rd person
3. Conclusions
Note
References
Emergent Grammatical Relations: Subjecthood in Kapampangan
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical relations in Philippine languages
2.1. Control of Coordination
2.2. Target ofEqui-NP Deletion
2.3. Target of relativization deletion
3. What is the subject in Kapampangan?
3.1. Cross-linguistic comparisons
3.2. A gradient
3.3. A gradient of functional requirements
4. Summary
Notes
References
The story f "break" Cognitive categories of objects and the system of verbs*
1. Introduction
2. Verbs of breaking and classifiers in Japanese
2.1. The five verbs of breaking in Japanese
2.2. Correlation between classifiers and verbs of breaking
3. Verbs of breaking in languages with and without classifiers
3.1. Verbs of breaking in languages without classifiers
3.2. Summary
3.3. Verbs of breaking in languages with classifiers
3.4. Summary
4. Theoretical implications for another story
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
List of Contributors

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